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Spokane’s first powwow celebrating Two Spirit and Indigiqueer people is this Friday in Riverfront Park.
When Alexis G. Tonasket Hoyt started learning their tribe’s language, they felt they finally found what they’d been “pulled towards” their entire life.
Tonasket Hoyt is half Irish, half Native, and a member of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation. As soon as they started studying Okanagan Salish, they learned that their language had more than two options for pronouns.
“It felt so liberating,” they
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